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[Jan Kratochvil]

On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 10:56:24 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 11/13/2012 10:23 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> >> Sometimes things aren't ideal for one group in favor of another.
> > 
> > WHAT group is actually in favor of MiniDebugInfo? It has one single person 
> > as the feature owner. ABRT developers consider it useless. Who actually 
> > wants it? And are you sure those who think they want it realize what it 
> > really means?
> > 
> > Let's take a simple example:
> > $ gdb --args sleep 10
> > (gdb) r
> > (press Ctrl-C)
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0  0xb7fdc424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> > #1  0xb7eb94f0 in __nanosleep_nocancel () from /lib/libc.so.6
> > #2  0x0804b232 in ?? ()
> > #3  0x08048f99 in ?? ()
> > #4  0xb7e166b3 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
> > #5  0x08049085 in ?? ()
> > 
> > What MiniDebugInfo will give you (not tested):
> > #0  0xb7fdc424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> > #1  0xb7eb94f0 in __nanosleep_nocancel () from /lib/libc.so.6
> > #2  0x0804b232 in xnanosleep () from /usr/bin/sleep
> > #3  0x08048f99 in main () from /usr/bin/sleep
> > #4  0xb7e166b3 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
> > #5  0x08049085 in ?? ()
> > 
> > With coreutils-debuginfo, glibc-debuginfo and glibc-debuginfo-common 
> > installed:
> > #0  0xb7fdc424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> > #1  0xb7eb94f0 in __nanosleep_nocancel ()
> >     at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:82
> > #2  0x0804b232 in xnanosleep (seconds=10) at xnanosleep.c:111
> > #3  0x08048f99 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbfffef24) at sleep.c:147
> > 
> > Spot the difference…
> 
> I just did.  You seem to have proved the point of mini-debuginfo.

You seem to have proved different people consider it useless vs. useful.


Jan